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Understanding Language Change

Paperback • 2016 • 1. edition

Understanding Language Change

By Australia) Burridge Kate (Monash University, Germany) Bergs Alexander (Universitat Osnabruck

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About the book

The Understanding Language series provides approachable, yet authoritative, introductions to all the major topics in linguistics. Ideal for students with little or no prior knowledge of linguistics, each book carefully explains the basics, emphasising understanding of the essential notions rather than arguing for a particular theoretical position.Understanding Language Change offers a complete introduction to historical linguistics and language change. The book takes a step-by-step approach, fir...Show more

Historical and comparative linguistics

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ISBN

9780415713399

Publisher

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published year

2016

Language

Edition

1

Original title

Understanding Language Change

Format

Paperback

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